Its daily figures include deaths outside of hospital settings for the first time.
Britain now has Europe’s second highest official Covid-19 death toll with more than 26,000, according to figures published on Wednesday that raised questions about Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s response to the outbreak.
“We must never lose sight of the fact that behind every statistic there are many human lives that have tragically been lost before their time,” Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab told reporters. “We are still coming through the peak and...this is a delicate and dangerous moment in the crisis.” Opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer criticised Johnson’s response to the world’s worst public health crisis since the 1918 influenza outbreak. Johnson had spoken of Britain’s “apparent success” in tackling Covid-19 in a speech to the nation on Monday.
Yvonne Doyle, PHE’s medical director, said the new figures put the UK roughly in line with its peers in Europe, adjusted for population. Still, early evidence for “excess deaths” - the number of deaths from all causes that exceed the average for the time of year - suggest Britain has fared poorly in comparison to other countries.
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